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Language Skills

R
SPSS
SQL
tidyverse
tidymodels
rmarkdown
Statistics
Psychometrics
Multimethod Assessment
Rorschach
Personality
Neurosciences
Portuguese
Spanish
English
Italian
French
NA
Psychometrics
Expert in R and R Studio with emphasis on the Tidyverse
Data wrangling
Github
Some Python and SQL

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Last updated on 2022-10-16.

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Ruam P. F. A. Pimentel

I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.

Education

PhD. Candidate, Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Minor)

University of Toledo

Toledo, OH (USA)

2024 - 2019

  • Teaching and Research Assistant

M.S., Psychology, Psychological Assessment (Area)

Universidade São Francisco

Campinas, SP (Brazil)

2019 - 2018

  • Thesis: …
  • Teaching Assistant

Specialization in Neuroscience (300 hrs)

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Santos, SP (Brazil)

2019 - 2018

  • Thesis: …

B.S., Psychology

CEULP/ULBRA

Palmas, TO (Brazil)

2017 - 2012

  • Thesis: …
  • Teaching and Research Assistant

Research Experience

Normative Data Collection Coordinator (Research Assistant)

N/A

Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System (R-PAS)

Current - 2021

  • Organize international data collection across 17 countries.
  • Provide resources for data collectors
  • to be update

Translation and Adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory to Portuguese (Research Assistant)

N/A

N/A

Current - 2020

  • Assist in all drafts and analysis.
  • Organize and clean items for translation.
  • Backtranslation (Portuguese to English).
  • Run psychometrics (e.g., internal consistency, validity studies, norms).

Teaching Assistant

N/A

The University of Toledo

2021 - 2019

  • Statistical Methods 1 (for grad student)
  • Statistical Methods 2 (for grad student)
  • Personality (for undegrad)
  • Statistics (for undergrad)

Teaching Assistant

N/A

Universidade São Francisco

2019 - 2018

  • Thesis advising I (for undegrad)
  • Thesis advising II (for undergrad)

Teaching Assistant

N/A

CEULP/ULBRA

2017 - 2014

  • Morphophysiology and human behavior
  • Methods of psychological assessment
  • Psychological assessment
  • Neuropsychological assessment

Industry Experience

I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from journalist to software engineer to data scientist. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.




Teaching Experience

I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.

Javascript for Shiny Users

RStudio::conf 2020

N/A

2020

  • Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
  • Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.5

Data Visualization Best Practices

DataCamp

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
  • Uses R and ggplot2.
  • In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

DataCamp

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
  • Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2018 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
  • Highest level course offered in department

Advanced Statistical Computing

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2018 - 2018

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
  • 4th year PhD level class

Statistical Computing in R

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2017 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
  • Graduate level class

Selected Data Science Writing

I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.6

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb7

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

  • Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
  • Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
  • Reached top of HackerNews.

Classifying physical activity from smartphone data8

RStudio Tensorflow Blog

N/A

2018

  • Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
  • Contracted article.

The United States of Seasons9

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2018

  • GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
  • Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit10

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

  • Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
  • Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds11

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

  • Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
  • Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.

The Traveling Metallurgist12

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

  • Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
  • Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.

Selected Press (About)

Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app13

Science

N/A

2017 - 2017

  • Story of the app Papr14 made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.

Swipe right for science: Papr app is ‘Tinder for preprints’15

Nature News

N/A

2017 - 2017

  • Second press article for app Papr.

The Deeper Story in the Data16

University of Vermont Quarterly

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • Story on my path post graduation and the power of narrative.



Selected Press (By)

The Great Student Migration17

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.

Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times18

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
  • Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS

Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?19

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • Data scraped from CSPAN records to figure out who talked and past conventions.

Who’s Speaking at the Republican National Convention?20

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • Used same data scraping techniques as Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?

A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block21

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

  • Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
  • Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.

Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Aplicativo de administração remota do R-PAS: Dados preliminares de equivalência (R-PAS Remote Administration Application: Preliminary equivalence data)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Desenvolvimento do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Development of the R-PAS administration app)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Uso do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Use of the R-PAS administration app)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

One for All and All for One: Culture, Personality, and Governmental Policies Predicting Mask-Wearing in an International Sample

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Opções e Desafios da pesquisa com Testes de Perfomance em tempos pandêmicos (Options and Challenges of Research with Performance Tests in Pandemic Times)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Beyond the ‘Mask Wars’: Cross-national comparison of health protective behaviors, government compliance, and empathy

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

The Pfister colored pyramid test and its use in C/TA

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach: Uma Breve Introdução ao R-PAS (Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System: A brief introduction to R-PAS)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach Itermediário: Administração e Codifição (Intermediate Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration and Coding)

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • presentation

Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for Inperson and Remote Administration

N/A

N/A

N/A

The influence of emotional valence over Source Memory in Aging Paper Presentation

ENAR 2020

N/A

2020

  • conferencePaper
  • How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research

What do we know about the Source Memory in Aging? A review Paper presentation

RStudio::conf 2020

N/A

2020

  • presentation
  • Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.

Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for In-Person and Remote Administration

Bioinformatics

N/A

2020

  • presentation
  • See landing page22 for more information.

Comparing committed Forensic Inpatients to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity of Not Using Scores from the Rorschach task and Self-report

Chest

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • thesis

Impacto de Exergames na qualidade de vida de idosos

RStudio::conf 2019

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • conferencePaper

Sentiment Analysis in Rorschach responses e-poster for online conference.

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • conferencePaper

Relation between R-PAS and BFI2 moderate by R-PAS self-perception indicators: preliminary studies Paper presentation

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

  • conferencePaper
  • Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Comparing Patients with Schizophrenia to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

  • presentation
  • Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Malingering severe psychopathology on the Rorschach task: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2018 - 2018

  • journalArticle

Coding criteria for Breaking the Card Boundary (BCB)

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam

N/A

2017 - 2017

  • presentation
  • Successfully met qualifying examination standards

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

Journal of Human Immunology

N/A

2015 - 2015

  • journalArticle

Funcionamento patológico da personalidade para predição da depressão, qualidade de vida e esperança

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

N/A

2015 - 2015

  • manuscript

A cross-cultural investigation from nine countries of empathic and antisocial profiles’ adherence to COVID-19 containment measures

Journal of Great Lakes Research

N/A

2015 - 2015

  • thesis